Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
script, literature
Parts:
beautiful, patterned
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2103 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 斐紙 【ヒシ】 traditional Japanese paper made from the fibre of plant species Diplomorpha sikokiana (high quality, glossy)
  • 斐然 【ヒゼン】 beautiful, florid
  • 甲斐 【ガイ】 effect, result, worth, use, avail
  • 言い甲斐 【イイガイ】 worth mentioning

Readings

Japanese names:
あや
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fei3
Korean:
bi

Spanish

  • bello
  • estampado

Portuguese

French

5081 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1781 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2082 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3449 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1776 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2417 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
13469 Morohashi
2776 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2370 New Nelson (John Haig)
2897 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2906 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2j10.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-4 SKIP code
1140.0 Four corner code
1-40-69 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6590 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
Variants:
paper
Kun:
かみ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
559 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 紙 【シ】 newspaper
  • 紙上 【シジョウ】 on paper, in the newspapers, in a letter
  • 原稿用紙 【ゲンコウヨウシ】 Japanese writing paper (lined with a square grid, one square per character), manuscript paper
  • 製紙 【セイシ】 papermaking, paper manufacture

Kun reading compounds

  • 紙 【かみ】 paper
  • 紙芝居 【かみしばい】 kamishibai, storytelling with pictures, form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)
  • インディア紙 【インディアかみ】 India paper
  • 頸上 【くびかみ】 neckband, round upright collar (on some traditional Japanese clothing)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhi3
Korean:
ji

Spanish

  • papel
  • periódico

Portuguese

  • Papel

French

  • papier
85 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
148 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
132 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
501 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3510 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
362 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
236 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1953 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.2 Japanese for Busy People
180 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
180 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
243 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1517 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1654 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
879 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1197 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1846 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27293 Morohashi
1302 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4455 New Nelson (John Haig)
1829 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1971 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
456 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
194 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2756 2001 Kanji
6a4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-4 SKIP code
2294.0 Four corner code
1-27-70 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7d19 Unicode hex code